When you serve as an official, you should think about the rise and fall of a school; when you are in charge of government, you must plan for a century-old foundation.
Officialdom is like a chess game. Some people hold the pieces and make arrangements, while others are willing to be pawns.
When the balance of power tilts, some people choose to go with the flow, while others look for a new fulcrum in the countercurrent.
Chen Zheng, the most marginalized deputy director of the provincial department, was ordered to go to Luojiang City to integrate two vocational schools with deep grievances.
What he faced was not only the overt conflict, but also the undercurrent of faction strangulation.
The honor of the past is vulnerable in the face of interests, and the former subordinates turned against each other in the face of power.
In this smokeless battlefield, he wants to use the humblest bargaining chip to leverage the strongest fortress of interests.
After all, true Machiavellian masters never wait for the wind to come to them—they create it themselves.
